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title: “You will succeed in this also,” whispered the Sister of the Sun, pr… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You will succeed in this also,” whispered the Sister of the Sun, pressing his hand, “for in my ship is a magic sword which will cut through everything. Who acts: You, Sister, magic sword. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree an
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 27

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“You will succeed in this also,” whispered the Sister of the Sun, pressing his hand, “for in my ship is a magic sword which will cut through everything.

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**Who acts:** You, Sister, magic sword · **What happens:** succeed, whisper, press, be, cut · **To what, where:** this, hand, magic sword · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Sister, magic sword), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:24:27
# text = “You will succeed in this also,” whispered the Sister of the Sun, pressing his hand, “for in my ship is a magic sword which will cut through everything.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	pressing	press	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	through	through	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** *in a quote* | future | You |  |  | this |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | the Sister of the Sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **press** | gerund | the Sister of the Sun *not said here* | youth's hand |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a magic sword |  |  |  | for my ship | tree rules |
| 5 | **cut** *in a quote* | future | a magic sword |  |  |  |  | through everything | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through everything=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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